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Here you will find pointers to manuals, tutorials and references that will come in handy when you feel like coding in Ruby. Installing Ruby Unless you only want to try Ruby in the browser (see the links below) you need to have Ruby installed on your computer. You can check whether Ruby already is available by opening a terminal and typing This should output some information on the installed Ruby version. If not, see the installation page for various options of getting Ruby. Getting Started Try Ruby! An interactive tutorial that lets you try out Ruby right in your browser. Ruby Koans The Koans walk you along the path to enlightenment in order to learn Ruby. RubyMonk Discover Ruby idioms, learn lessons and solve problems, all in your browser! Hackety Hack The little coder’s starter kit. Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby An unconventional but interesting book that will teach you Ruby through stories, wit, and comics. Ruby in Twenty Minutes A nice tutorial covering the basics of Ruby. Learning Ruby

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Getting Started with Rails 1 Guide Assumptions This guide is designed for beginners who want to get started with a Rails application from scratch. It does not assume that you have any prior experience with Rails. Rails is a web application framework running on the Ruby programming language. If you have no prior experience with Ruby, you will find a very steep learning curve diving straight into Rails. Ruby QuickRef Table of Contents Language General Tips How to install Ruby on Rails in Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu (The latest stable version : 11.10(Oneiric Ocelot), released few weeks ago) is one of the most Linux based popular operating system and gradually becoming more popular among programmers and web developers. C/C++/Java programmers and web developers are rocking with the Ubuntu as it has a bunch of open source development tools available to increase the productivity at minimum or zero cost. Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular framework for developing web applications using Agile approach. Rails (Latest version : 3.1) is based MVC (Model View Framework).

zenspider.com by ryan davis Table of Contents Language General Tips These are tips I’ve given over and over and over and over… Use 2 space indent, no tabs. Use [] over Array.new. Learn to Program, by Chris Pine A Place to Start for the Future Programmer I guess this all began back in 2002. I was thinking about teaching programming, and what a great language Ruby would be for learning how to program. I mean, we were all excited about Ruby because it was powerful, elegant, and really just fun, but it seemed to me that it would also be a great way to get into programming in the first place.

Redsn0w 0.9.9b8 Released Published on 11-03-2011 02:49 PM Redsn0w 0.9.9b8 is fully compatible with the iOS 5.0.1 Beta released to developers yesterday. Yesterday, Apple pushed out the iOS 5.0.1 Beta to developers which has fixed numerous bugs in iOS 5 and brings the beloved multitasking gestures back to the original iPad. It was reported that iOS 5.0.1 could have been jailbroken with redsn0w 0.9.9b7, although you would need to point redsn0w to the iOS 5.0 firmware file, and the jailbreak was tethered.

Installing Ruby on Rails Ubuntu 11.10 using RVM and Ruby 1.9.2 « The Tech Tutorial Ruby Rails is a Web application framework created in 2004 intended as a rapid development web framework that runs the Ruby programing language. The latest version of the Ruby is ‘Ruby 1.9.2‘ and was realised in August 2011, it brings many new features and bug fixeses. The most signifiant changes are Block local variables, An additional lambda syntax, Per-string character encodings are supported and a new New socket API (IPv6 support). You can find a great walkthrough of all the new features at Ruby Inside. coinciding with the release of Ruby 1.9 is the Rails 3.1 framework which requires Ruby 1.8.7 or higher. RubyonRails 3.1 brings many new features, most notably: jQuery as default, HTTP Streaming, a new assets pipeline powered by Sprockets 2.0. So this is all good stuff and I’m sure you want to be working with the latest version of Ruby and RubyonRails, especially if you setting up a new server.

10 Minutes to Your First Ruby Application By James Britt 2012-11: The code and article has been updated to fix some errors and to work with Ruby 1.9.3 At the time it was written, and because of where it was originally published, it was targeted (more or less) at people working on Windows, so there may be a few unstated assumptions in the text. On the other hand, the command-line examples seem to reflect a unix shell, no doubt because that's where the bulk of the content was created. Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful:

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